{"id":5952,"date":"2016-05-05T22:25:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2016-06-04T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:28:32","slug":"who-prefers-to-date-people-of-their-own-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2016\/05\/who-prefers-to-date-people-of-their-own-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Who prefers to date people of their own race?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data from the OKCupid project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In light of a recent paper examining who prefers to date within their own religion<\/a>, I recalled that there was a question about this in the OKCupid dataset, except that it is for race:\u00a0“Would you strongly prefer to go out with someone of your own skin color \/ racial background?” It’s a dichotomous outcome, where yes = 1, so I used a logistic model. I added the usual predictors. Results:<\/p>\n

$coefs\r\n                                            Beta   SE CI.lower CI.upper\r\nage                                         0.03 0.01     0.00     0.06\r\ngender: Man                                 0.00   NA       NA       NA\r\ngender: Other                              -1.85 0.59    -3.01    -0.70\r\ngender: Woman                               0.12 0.03     0.06     0.19\r\nrace: White                                 0.00   NA       NA       NA\r\nrace: Mixed                                -1.15 0.06    -1.27    -1.03\r\nrace: Asian                                -0.66 0.07    -0.80    -0.52\r\nrace: Hispanic \/ Latin                     -1.40 0.09    -1.57    -1.22\r\nrace: Black                                -1.49 0.09    -1.67    -1.31\r\nrace: Other                                -2.06 0.15    -2.36    -1.76\r\nrace: Indian                               -0.60 0.15    -0.89    -0.31\r\nrace: Middle Eastern                       -1.30 0.24    -1.78    -0.82\r\nrace: Native American                      -0.28 0.26    -0.78     0.22\r\nrace: Pacific Islander                     -2.93 0.72    -4.35    -1.52\r\nCA                                         -0.41 0.02    -0.44    -0.38\r\nideology: Liberal \/ Left-wing               0.00   NA       NA       NA\r\nideology: Centrist                          0.74 0.04     0.66     0.82\r\nideology: Conservative \/ Right-wing         1.49 0.05     1.39     1.60\r\nideology: Other                             0.76 0.04     0.69     0.83\r\nreligion_seriousness: Not at all important  0.00   NA       NA       NA\r\nreligion_seriousness: Not very important    0.42 0.04     0.35     0.49\r\nreligion_seriousness: Somewhat important   -0.18 0.03    -0.25    -0.12\r\nreligion_seriousness: Extremely important  -0.09 0.03    -0.15    -0.04\r\n\r\n$meta\r\n        N pseudo-R2  deviance       AIC \r\n 34519.00      0.12  30143.27  30183.27<\/pre>\n
$meta N pseudo-R2 deviance AIC 34519.00 0.12 30143.27 30183.27<\/pre>\n
The betas are standardized. CA = cognitive ability. Measured from an ad hoc collection of 14 items.<\/p>\n
Some conclusions:<\/p>\n